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Chaincourt Theater - Winter semester 2025/26 production
"Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet
Wealth, Power, Success, and Survival
The Chaincourt Theatre Company brings to the stage David Mamet’s Glengarry
Glen Ross
How
far should one go to attain wealth and success?
Which values can be compromised in this pursuit? What measures can one take in a cut-throat
competitive, materially obsessed world?
Are these goals only to be obtained through a ruthlessly single-minded
attitude? These are some of the
questions playwright David Mamet confronts us with in Glengarry Glen Ross.
In
his play, four real-estate agents find themselves thrown into a fight for
survival over the course of one week by the owners of the agency in an attempt
to increase profits. The agent with the
most sales wins a Cadillac El Dorado; the one with the second most sales wins a
set of steak knives. The last two are
fired. The agents respond with a mix of
ambition, desperation, and morally questionable actions to keep their
jobs. In this way, David Mamet presents
us with an all-too-familiar contemporary working world and challenges us to
examine its existential value.
Born
in Chicago in 1947, David Mamet is a playwright, author, screenwriter, and
director. His play, Glengarry Glen
Ross won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
Mamet’s dialogue has been referred to as “Mametspeak”, a style of
script-writing which influences television and screenwriters to this day.
The Chaincourt Theatre Company is made up of students from various
faculties, alumni, and staff. It has
produced under this name since the mid-1990’s.
Before that, it went by IEAS Theatre.
Performances: Opening night on
January 30th 2026; additional performances on January 31st
as well as on February 5th, 6th, and 7th
(closing night). Curtain is at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: 10€ (general admission) and 5€
(reduced); tickets are only available at the box office one hour before curtain
(6:30 p.m.); no advance ticket sales.
Location:
Goethe University, Campus Westend, IG Farbenhaus-Nebengebäude, room NG 1.741
Contact: James Fisk (Artistic Director);
fisk@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Chaincourt Theatre
Winter-semester production 2024/25
"Hamlet" - article in Frankfurter Rundschau 17.01.2025
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From: UniReport 6.24, author: Dr. Dirk Frank
A classic with a contemporary twist: The Chaincourt Theatre
Company is performing Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
The Chaincourt Theatre Company at Goethe University Frankfurt is
performing Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in the 2024/25 winter semester
“Time is
out of joint!” Shakespeare’s protagonist Hamlet begins the eponymous play with
these words describing a time of political upheaval, uncertainty about the
future and untrustworthy leaders. Although Shakespeare’s Hamlet was first
performed more than 400 years ago, it couldn’t be more topical: Time is indeed
out of joint.
This year, the Chaincourt Theatre Company dares to
tackle Shakespeare’s Hamlet, one of the world’s most famous and challenging
plays. Following his father’s death, Hamlet, the crown prince of Denmark,
returns to the Danish court, only to discover that his uncle has ascended the
throne and married his mother. What’s more, his father’s ghost is haunting the
court with terrible news and a mission for Hamlet: revenge. What follows is a
story full of intrigue, questions of individual responsibility, love and
madness.
Consisting of a cast of students from various
faculties, Goethe University Frankfurt’s Chaincourt Theatre Company consists of
new and familiar faces both on and offstage. The group is led by James Fisk, a
lecturer in English and English Studies at the Institute for English and
American Studies, who is also the theater’s artistic director. “Join us in
travelling to a time out of joint and enjoy the resulting performance,
characterized by a combination of ambitious new arrivals and years of acting
and theater experience,” Fisk says. Performances are in English and take place
on the stage in the IG-Farbenhaus annex.
Performances: Premiere
on January 31; further shows on February 1, 6, 7 and 8. The performance starts
at 7:30 pm. Venue: Room NG 1.741, IG Farbenhaus annex, Campus Westend.
Tickets: 10 €/5 € (discount) – tickets are available at the box office one hour before the performance begins (no advance booking).
Contact: James Fisk
(artistic director), fisk@em.uni-frankfurt.de
or via Instagram @chaincourttheatre
